Kris Bryant seems tailor-made for the spotlight. Even walking onto a stage without one, his omnipresent smile and general aura of transcendent awesomeness throw off enough luminescence to let you see him clearly. Bryant didn’t really do anything spectacular in last night’s All-Star game, but he joined an elite pantheon of Cubs players nonetheless.
When he earned a spot on the NL roster for the Mid-Summer Classic, Bryant became only the 3rd Cubs rookie to do so. The other two? Well, if you haven’t already seen the names above you’d probably be guessing names like Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, or Billy Williams.